fort mccoy, fort blakely, it's a state park now you see fort blakely is this is fort blakely here. landmines were used right here. us colored troops were up here, which is very important part of the story. but the but the confederate defenders are outnumbered like 1300 against 15,000 and landmines were used in this valley protecting rip out number four ohio troops from iowa and u.s. colored troops ran over that area filled with mines and had wires tied between trees. so when the soldiers would trip, don't fall in the mines. they also laid landmines logs one or three and or one log. so somebody stepped on a log or a plank board. the whole thing would go off. this infantry assault, some would argue, was the last infantry assault of the american civil war, which occurred on april 9th, 1865. in the afternoon. they didn't know what happened right down the road here. that morning when generally surrendered. on april 9th, 1865. they didn't get the memo or the email that the war was to be over. but this is the last time that landmines were used in a hostile situation and that american sold

benning, fort bragging -- fort bragg, fort hood, they must be renamed.get enough recruits and we can't seem to win wars, but we've really got to rename these bases. a proposed plan of nine army posts to be renamed. fort benning, no more, now fort moore. i served there for years and was back there multiple times, never knew who general benning was. it was fort benning. fort bragg, fort rubbing arer, fort hood, i know a lot of our audience has spent a lot of time in and around these places which if my sob goes op on to -- my son goes on to serve, i'm going to say, hey, you going to fort benningsome he's going to say, no, fort me. i met world war ii guys, i was at fort hood, now it's i'm at fort gregg-adams. fort walker. haw you talking about? oh, fort bragg? okay. that's not to defend the confederacy. that's not what any of this is about. connecting to our past. will it's the also a question as rachel pointed out this morning of our priorities and where where our military is focused not just in any given moment of history, but a pretty big one when we're t

and clued in fort myers. we will go there in just a moment and now coming to be known as ground zero. satellite images showing areas there before and after the storm. survivors continuing to speak out about what they have endured. >> i sheltered in a closet until part of the roof came off. and then the wind came in there so that i just went behind the bed. and stay there. >> nothing about gratitude that we are here and for all that the people out there do. >> i will never ever not evacuate again. >> the power of that storm i mean if that would've crashed into the side of the house. we would have been swept away. >> all right happening now in sarasota county in west central florida. possible levee break, that is threatening flooding about to 15 feet in the hayden river community. the sarasota county sheriff's office tweeting a warning saturday morning. and then urging residents to shelter in place if it is safe to do so. some of the images come out and they're completely devastating already. florida growing jo

if you haven't seen any pictures of fort myers beach, this is why.florida that's supposed to give us access when there's a state of emergency. but you got to feel for the sheriff's deputies just trying to manage the crowds that are piling in. you've got journalists, of course, you've got first responders, you have residents who are just curious who are coming by. and that's creating this huge pileup. but this is what i wanted to show you, this is across san carlos boulevard. just get a road of this, just wanton, indiscriminate destruction. i think about how a family saves up their whole life to buy a boat. or if you're a fisherman, you dream of being a captain one day and now perilous that is even in a good year sometimes. but now what this will do to the maritime businesses around here. the insurance, the marine insurance companies that will have to deal with the aftermath of this. and this is what i really wanted to show you, guys. look at this. i will always represent the sight of captain greg's boat "the cracker jack" now parked on top of this ac

the national hurricane center cited life-threatening storm surge for fort myers at 5:00 p.m. monday. on tuesday morning the first mandatory orders were issued and expanded throughout the day. >> inkt was a little late. i think it should have been like monday, sometime monday because it's such a low-lying area and even though it was hitting tampa, tampa's right there. >> it's their whole life people don't want to leave their valuables behind >> reporter: in the midst of this dark chapter the chairman and ceo of florida power and light says recent changes to the infrastructure help expediting repairs >> we believe we're going to be done with everybody who can accept power and understand, there are thousands of structures that will not be able to accept power. by the close of business on friday >> reporter: a glimmer of light for a community still stunned by so much loss >> this is my mother's house. this is my whole life. my mom was supposed to retire here and spend the rest of her life and be happy and now we have nothing. >> sam, what kind of response are you hearing over the

that's home to places like fort myers, kick, all pine island.ounty manager tells cnn that it's not an overstatement at all. to say that hurricane ian decimated parts of the area. says quote, it's a look to someone just dropped from the sky. picked up hotels, and buildings, and took them away. at least 16 people are confirmed dead there. i want to win the county commissioner kevin lewin. commissioner, thank you for joining us tonight, i'm a looking at these pictures and the devastation, lee county, we are talking places like santa belle, pine island, fort myers beach, cape coral. this is unbelievable, devastation that we are seeing! what are you saying? and what does your community need most right now. >> so i had an opportunity yesterday to go up and in the holocaust, or review the area for about two and a half hours, saw the devastation, so i was here the interest doctor is compromised. we have roads, power, wi-fi, they were all compromised. so we are going to rebuild, repair, i'm here at the operation center in lee county, we are here with loc

fort rucker, fort polk, fort hood renamed.ad of grappling with our past, realize it is flawed, it must be erased, rename. give it 10 years, give it 20 years. every private going through will recycle through not fort benning, fort moore, fort benning will be forgotten. that is how they do it. they erase our past. our past is not perfect. i don't know, really gets, this one really gets me, not because i'm pro-confederacy, nobody is, we have a history. rachel: you know, there is the history part of it but there is also the priorities. pete: that's a big one. rachel: defense secretary lloyd austin worrying about whether someone's feelings are hurt because it is fort benning. weren't we talking about nuclear war, nuclear war? we're talking about that. we've got recruiting numbers down. this is a, a secretary, a defense secretary who couldn't get us out of afghanistan without our soldiers being needlessly killed and leaving behind billions of dollars for the taliban and this is what he cares about? this is, i'm going to say it, i th

myers, fort myers beach and sanibel island. until last tuesday the forecast had the tampa bay area taking a direct hit, but then the path of the storm shifted south to lee county. according to lee county's evacuation guidelines, however, as early as sunday fort myers was predicted to get a big enough storm surge to activate orders for residents to leave, but they did not. today the sheriffs stood by the timing of the evacuation orders. for those who choose to ride the storm out at home, it's too late. rescue teams are right now going door to door scrambling to get to stranded victims in time. >> reporter: the rescue and recovery operation after hurricane ian continuing on this small white sand island of fort myers beach located in lee county, an island that is now an island of rubble, 54 deaths now reported in this county alone. >> we're looking for anybody that may have been left behind. the devastation is hard to put into words. >> reporter: we joined a rescue operation that includes search and rescue dogs. >> we send the dog

fort myers beach is going to be closed basically.et some residents go back. >> yeah, we're heading back down there tomorrow and we just got word they will allow residents with their own boats to go out to sanibel island and say, look, be very careful. when we were there, with the cajun navy, there was a propane tank that had been thrown around and was just hissing, the gas, you could smell it in the air. a couple of house fires started that way. and but you can understand the pull, yo

parts of the fort myers from that strike are uninhabitable.y just need that support and once that happens, let the government come in and clean up and assess the area and re-establish power and then people can then reach out to insurance firms and figure out the status and figure out the next move. but you can't do that from an disaster zone. it is impossible. >> when can evacuees return and what is your message to people wanting to return to their homes? >> i understand it. i think it depends on where you were in relation to the strike. i think that does matter and the level of damage. if you are on the outer, i am in naples south of the fort myerss. the gas stations are open and hotels are on generator and in the next 48 hours, you will see naples down to 20% of the homes without electricity and they will be in good shape. north of fortmyeres same situation. but you are in fort myeres. this is a row build. not refur bishment. the electrical and water and sewer system, from ground up. i think it does not make sense to go in for 3 or 4 weeks.

the fort myers beach pier obliterated. and here's the before and after in an area around a well-known resort popular with spring breakers it is the blue building on the left there it is standing but nearly everything around it leveled there have been more than 700 rescues and they're ongoing now. the hurricane ravaged island of sanibel cut off. the only way to reach survivors is by boat or helicopter this is coast guard aircrew rescuing people along with their cats from a flooded mobile home park and this is the coast guard rescuing a survivor who rode out the hurricane in a boat. the storm surge left him hopelessly stuck and stranded in the middle of mangroves near sanibel. news team coverage again tonight. meteorologist adam del rosso with the latest track and perry russom with stories and shomari stone and it hit near myrtle beach, south carolina. >> reporter: i >> reporter: this shrimp boat washed ashore a couple of miles ago. it's an example of ian's powerful winds anchored 12 miles away and the strong winds pushed it

as cleanup efforts continue in fort in fort myers, florida, goes res are coming to terms with the massive damage that hurricane ian inflicted. >> the kitchen has to come out,e bathrooms. a redo. >> devastated seeing what happed to the property. it was hard to comprehend. >> reporter: before and after se images show the destruction. >> from here on out we will exi. >> we are existing but not livi. our life is right there. >> reporter: hundreds of thousas of people are still without power. >> rest assured they are workind to get the lights back on. >> reporter: fuel and water aren short supply. state officials are defending the timing of evacuation orders in the fort myers area that some say didn'te soon enough. >> those folks at the local levl as the storm started to shift, they took that data then acted appropriately. >> reporter: the destruction ise in fort myers beach, florida, is is from boats landing on buildings to other structures left as rubble. >> i fell off the roof. one guy almost got his thumb cut off. ey made it through okay. >> reporter: shawn shelton rodet the storm investig

you can see fort laramie there. this point of the map is nebraska territory, eventually wyoming territory, right? this is the first of two big treaties that are going to be signed at fort laramie. and what the 1851 fort laramie treaty is supposed to do, supposed to do, is recognize native american claims, land claims, in the region, right? while at the same point in exchange for that recognition and annuities, annual payments of certain amounts of cash to native americans, specifically we're talking about the lakota, the cheyenne, the arikara, the arapaho, the mandan, a couple of others i'm forgetting off the top of my head. the crow, the blackfeet as well i? don't know. anyway, recognizing the territory in exchange for, kind of, allowing safe passage for these settlers with the idea that they weren't going to stop, right? you can pass through our territory to the willamette valley. that's perfectly fine with us, in exchange for you not staying, you recognizing our land claim, and a little bit of money, that would b

i'm coming to you from fort myers, florida. this is one of the cities that was hit by hurricane ian. calling it a category four storm is putting it lightly. ian was just two miles per hour shy of being a category five hurricane. the likes of which have only been experienced four times in u.s. history. hurricane ian made landfall on wednesday afternoon in florida. maximum sustained winds measured at a stunning 155 miles per hour. those winds caused storm surges. a major hazard for this low-lying region. at this hour, more than 1.2 million people across florida remain without electricity. as of late yesterday, parts of the county, where i am now, where it made landfall, they did not have access to clean drinking water. many people have no running water whatsoever. it is hard to know exactly how many people are displaced right now. officials estimate that it is in the tens of thousands. at least 34 people have been confirmed dead so far. 12 of them right here in lee county. after barreling through florida, you can regain strength

for miles city councilman, and fort myers is a different cities in fort myers beach, a different place. he is a native of the town, fred, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it, you are not a city counselor in fort myers beach, but there are these situations all over the place. there are people whose existence was on the margins of society, and, they need help. what is your sense of how this is being addressed? >> well, i think the rescue people are doing everything they can to assist everybody, it is not just fort myers beach that was devastated, or sanibel island. a lot of these inland cities are devastated as well. fort myers is seven or eight miles inland, even though we are on the river, we are still inland from the coast. at the same time we ended up with both in downtown fort myers on the street because of flooding. and, fortunately they never came into the house but, my neighbors did not have water in their house, the people that i live next door to had four and five feet of water in their home. this is a wide swath of destruction, not isolated to just a couple of islands.

richard henry pratt had been commander at fort marion, i believe it was fort marion in florida. during the refer to as the dakota war the great sioux war. however, you want to define it in 17 1876. all right. pows from that war native americans were taken to florida and held the fort marion and pratt was in charge of the pows. and he got this idea in 1878 that if these pows were trained in english and american culture that they could then return. it's a great sue reservation. i can return out west and be emissaries for american culture. and so he actually kind of works with the hampton institute in virginia, which has created in 1868 as a school for friedman to be trained how to be american after slavery okay and 1878. they started an indian school version of this is what they called it there at hampton and then pratt basically pitched this idea to congress and congress is like all right, cool. let's do this. and so they set up this school in carlisle. and he goes over and he is going to lead this and from 1879 to 1918 about 10,000 native american children are going to go throug

i'm joined now by bill weir in fort myers. and i know you tried to get into fort myers beach today. going to tell us about that journey, but also one of the things you're seeing and you really see it everywhere is boats in just impossible places. >> reporter: absolutely. that just -- all of them, an illustration of the physics of the storm that did the most amazing things. i was on my way because we heard 90% of fort myers beach was wiped out. the road was closed there by the sheriff's department. it sounds like they're going to open that up in coming days, but while we're sitting there and looking around and look at the images of this crackerjack, the charter yacht parked on the top of a chevy suburban with the alarm going off inside to alert the captain something is wrong. and there is this yacht across the boulevard had to be shoved across. they're bringing in this heavy equipment to try to move all this debris out of the way. they're shoving it for the time being. but then take a look at this footage. you compare that to what's happening here in fort myers. this is near the yach

one road in and one road out in many of these parts of fort myers, heading into fort myers beach. that's part of the reason many of them have been cut off. on sunday when 4 to 7 foot surge advisories were put out, that was three days before hurricane ian made landfall. it was predicted for an area from bonita, the evacuation went out tuesday morning. that prognostication of what was coming was sunday night. i asked the sheriff about that today. here was his response. there are indications lee county's comprehensive emergency management plan was ignored -- >> let's talk about that, sir. i'm going to cut you off before you go any further. i don't know who you are or where you come from, everyone wants to focus on a plan that might have been done differently. i'm going to tell you i stand 100% with my county commissioners, my county manager. we did what we had to do at the exact same time. i wouldn't have changed anything, and i know being in those meetings from the very minute, this storm was very unpredictable. i called my brother five hours when he got word the storm was going to

i'm joined now by bill weir in fort myers. and i know you tried to get into fort myers beach today.ing to tell us about that journey, but also one of the things you're seeing and you really see it everywhere is boats in just impossible places. >> reporter: absolutely. that just -- all of them, an illustration of the physics of the storm that did the most amazing things. i was on my way because we heard 90% of fort myers beach was wiped out. the road was closed there by the sheriff's department. it sounds like they're going to open that up in coming days, but while we're sitting there and looking around and look at the images of this crackerjack, the charter yacht parked on the top of a chevy suburban with the alarm going off inside to alert the captain something is wrong. and there is this yacht across the boulevard had to be shoved across. they're bringing in this heavy equipment to try to move all this debris out of the way. they're shoving it for the time being. but then take a look at this footage. you compare that to what's happening here in fort myers. this is near the yacht b

you get an attempt to kind of deal with some of this in the fort laramie treaty of then you can see fort laramie there in was at this point on this map is nebraska territory eventually be wyoming territory, right? this is the first of two big treaties that are gonna be signed at fort layer army. and what the 1851 fort laramie treaty is supposed to do. supposed to do is recognize native american claims land claims in the region. right. well the same point in exchange for that recognition and annuities annual payments of certain amounts of cash two native americans. specifically we're talking about what the lakota the cheyenne the eureka the arapahoe the mandan. a couple others. i'm forgetting off the top of my head with crow. yeah. can't forget the curl right the black feet also. i don't know. anyway recognizing their territory in exchange for kind of allowing safe passage. for these settlers with the idea that they weren't going to stop. right you can pass through our territory to the willamette valley. that's perfectly fine with us. all right. in exchange for you, not staying you recogn

we have you covered with a void in fort myers with the latest on that meeting.ve, the recovery is just beginning. the white house john kirby and where these recovery efforts are going. welcome, everybody, a very, very busy news day and something rare you seek cooperation from both sides of the aisle because the people in florida demanded it but more to the point, the leaders offered it. momentarily. let's go to nate boyd in fort myers with more. >> good afternoon, neil a cordial vision cor to mike visit between president biden and governor ron desantis and over s over into fort myers beach. they were there recently and the president just left under an hour ago at this point and you mentioned it was cordial. the president said he has done a good job responding to this hurricane but governor desantis is very thankful of the government assistance he received. i wanted to show you a moment just again here fort myers beach pier they were also joined with leaders including the fema administrator as well as senators rick scott marco rubio, congressman byron mcdonald's,

fort mcnair. yeah. mitch is here. him earlier. >> we will not get the capitol cleared out for two, three days. we should do it here. >> i appreciate that. i appreciate that. it seems like the overriding wish is to do it at the capitol but we are being told very directly, it's going to take days for the capitol to be okay again. that would be great. yeah. very well. very well. we were unified. no partisanship, no anything. but i think -- okay. yes, because i think it's important for it to happen today. i think it's -- a while ago chuck and i called on the president to ask the people to leave the capitol. that hasn't happened yet. i'm hoping it will. clearly they're -- they're -- we're in -- we're at the mercy and don't have that much communication here, believe it or not. we're not seeing all the statements and the rest but i appreciate that. can you check and see what the realistic view is of when we would be able to go back to the capitol. we have democrats and republicans at a location on capitol hill and they're to

neil: ken anderson of fort myers, florida -- kevin ankerson.e're going to be talking about marco island. service hit as well. some of the stories coming out of there about what happened when the storm hit, beyond incredible. after this. >> look, this is, this is -- look at this. [background sounds] this is our tree that a goes another 3 feet down. many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran is the eligibility for a va loan, for up to 100% of your home's value. if you need cash for you family, call newday usa. with automatic authority from the va, we can say yes when banks say no... give us a call. this was right by the pawl >> and here's the front of the house. look at the mailboxes. they were covered, water over the mailboxes. so it's gone down. the current's pushing that way. but, like, the mail boxes were completely underwater. look at the car. i hope they turn on because my car was up to the door. but now it's lore. but with i hope they turn on. look, we need a boat to to go

florida governor, ron desantis, is holding a news conference or in fort myers.ke a listen in. >> -- be able to go shop and get groceries, to be able to do those things. so, we were in charlotte county before i came here, and we went and visited one of the waffle houses that's open, serving first responders as well as the general public. and so, i just want to say we spoke about the people doing search and rescue, god bless them. we talk about the folks doing logistics, bringing the stuff here. i will talk a little more about that in a second. god bless them. but, you know, folks just doing their role in the private sector means an awful lot. and i was really pleased to see that. we didn't know when some of those places would be open. i was chiming in, i saw walmart open again. so, that's going to make a huge difference as we go forward here. over the last 72 hours, there have been over 1100 confirmed rescues made by first responders. and likely many more than that. those are the reported ones as of 6:00 this morning. we have been in lee county now three days in

and the storm surge around fort myers. and the myakka river you're talking about, interstate 75 is closed due to flooding and up here in an agricultural, more rural area is where the concern for that levee potentially that could have some issues. it did have a breach in 2003, and that was when they got 20 inches of rain over a three-day period. here they got 20 inches of rain in under 24 hours and because of that, we're seeing all of this flooding. latest observation is at 12.67 feet and this is its highest ever flood. that's going to stay at that level for a couple of days. florida is so flat that water doesn't have any gravity, really, to pull it down like you would see flash flooding in mountains. this is going to be a slower flooding situation as the water has to drain off of the flat area of florida. all right, here is where ian is now, heavy rain moving in across parts of martha's vineyard and nantucket, cape cod, southern parts of new england seeing the rain and then back across areas of west virginia. we're going t

she was on that side of fort myers beach. in fact, an nbc crew was allowed to go in there earlier today and they confirmed that it's part of the search now triage to day they are still recovering bodies, unfortunately, in that area. one of the hardest hit areas fort myers beach. . >> talking about how folks are dealing with this the other de station's night, their homes, after this hurricane. >> people were affected in different ways. we are talking about ground zero, that part, a lot of structures were destroyed we've seen the area with the images. i'm standing in an area where you still see some of >> the most affected presidents the one who's home for destroyed who had neighbors found in -- after being evacuate from the bridge, this is the bridge, like i said, that connects to fort myers beach. we saw ministers go in and out all day long. we don't know who's in the ambulance on the way in and out. a lot of the people in this mandatory evacuation will be brought out, very emotional -- >> mass of people being dropped off by

we were at fort myers beach.esterday they were in arcadia because we've had all kinds of resurgence of water coming back in. i'm not sure where it came from, but they closed i-75 last night. we did rescues till midnight. we could have gone all night, but we do have to get some sleep, a little bit. i guess that's what we're going to be dealing with this morning. we're going to go to punta gorda where a bridge has collapsed. and water -- last night there were people on their roofs again, people floating with air mattresses. yeah, it was a total chaotic scene last night. >> yeah. it's important to remember that with this much damage and this much water coming onto land, it's going to take a few days for people to actually be able to get out because there's just so much damage and it's so widespread. as you note, the work is strenuous. we appreciate what you're doing, gary. i imagine when you talk to some of these folks, including that couple you talked to in their 90s, it's going to be a difficult time for them beca

let me say, i pray with people in fort myers. i used to live in fort myers. looking at the news, my spirit was down. i use to on captiva island. i drove over that causeway bridge. but i think that moving forward, there has to be a standard when people want to rebuild. because at -- a hurricane is no joke. i was fortunate to go through hurricane in september 15, 19 95 in st. thomas. that night, i thought i was going to die. host: what do you think when people say you should not rebuild there? ricky has come through all the time and just do not build -- hurricanes come through all the time and just do not build houses there. caller: i would think that if hurricanes come past, you probably should not build because what do they say, you are doing the session sanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? they have to rebuild to a different standard like a previous caller said. they are putting money into this but if there is another hurricane then you should probably not rebuild. host: james in melbourne, arkansas. james, are you t

it is just in to cnn out of the fort myers area.t to residents who are filing into line. we learned this morning that officials have actually adjusted the overnight curfew. the original curfew was set on wednesday and it was set to expire after 48 hours. the curfew is now set from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. until further notice. they are asking people to stay out of the hardest hit areas and they shouldn't go out into the street past 9:00 p.m. only on official business or in the case of an energy, just to make things easier for the crews. we take a look at the headline from the "tampa bay times" that says it all. "florida brought to its knees." of course, as far south as fort myers beach to sanibel, naples, orlando, all of florida has been devastated. and among the hardest hit areas by hurricane ian, lee county has borne the brunt of this storm. there is aerial footage that shows the catastrophic damage left behind here. entire towns like sanibel island pulverized by wind and then washed away by the historic storm surge. large parts of

live to fort meyers, next. john: presidents of fort meyers beach, florida, is returning home after hurricane ian turned hopes into piles of debris and those focused not short of what it lost and their neighbors. nate foy is live in fort meyers with a look at that. nate. >> reporter: john, good evening. the resilience and strength is out on fort meyer's beach since the first time of the storm and that's the northern part of the island and southern part of the island is still being searched for more victims and here in downtown fort meyers, the rain falls down for the first time since we've seen since the hurricane, it's cleared out all the people here at this memorial all day paying their respects to people who lost their life during hurricane ian so you tee see pictures of people in the community here, each one with a corresponding cross. we have flowers and candles at the base of this memorial and some of the messages for the individuals and others are just for all of southwest florida. but unfortunately the d

fort mcnair. yeah, mitch is here.ed out for two, three days. we should do it here. >> i appreciate that. i appreciate that. it seems like the overriding wish is to do it at the capitol. what we are being told very directly is it's going to take days for the capitol to be okay again. that would be great, yeah. yeah, very well. and we were unified, no partisanship, no anything. but i think -- okay, yeah, because i think it's important for it to happen today. i think it's -- a while ago chelsea and i called the president to ask the people to leave the capitol. that hasn't happened yet. i hope it will. clearly they're -- we're at the mercy of we don't have that much communication here, believe it or not. so we aren't seeing all the statements and the rest. i appreciate that. will you check and see what the realistic view is of when we would be able to go back to the capitol. now -- a location at capitol hill. we're together and we're going to try to finish this today. they can't go home. they can't go outside. they can't

that's where sanibel island, fort myers and other areas are located. when do you expect things like electricity and water to be back? and can those residents move back to places like sanibel island, this year? >> yeah, there's going to be a lot of issues, especially in those areas of the greatest impact.r 2min omer witut power immediately following the storm% and the power companies have done an amazing job of getting things restored as quickly as possible. but those hardest hit areas, they're going to take some more time. we know there's a water issue right now in lee county. we brought in support from the army corps of engineers to work with the state, to work with the county officials to assess the extent of that damage, and what is it going to take to help repair it or at least put some temporary measures in place. beside that, we know so many homes -- i saw firsthand when i was there friday and saturday, so many homes completely destroyed. and so we are going to make sure that we are getting the right people in there to help provide the temporary

you're a resident of fort myers.ou decided to ride out ian in your condo building even though it had became inundated. it became quite an ordeal. we have footage to share of what you went through. i imagine seeing footage from other parts of this area, you probably consider yourself lucky. >> yeah, we do. i think the biggest issue is water around here. some of the places are on generator power, but most without water and electricity. at this point the water becomes so critical. where we were at a high-rise on the river front here in fort myers, we were on the 27th floor, our first floor got completely flooded out. cars were floating out. we got a couple of shots down there. the wind really held up in the building, but around us is destr destruction. >> what is going through your mind when this hurricane was a category 3 and then seemingly within hours it shoots to almost a category 5, a shade under category 5, and you're deciding whether you're going to stay wlrk you're going to leave, and you see conditions deterior

. >> jessie fell for vince, a man in uniform holding the fort during his long deployments. >> my hat goes off to all military wives. it's not easy. >> it's not. >> she was a good mom. she loved the kids. >> reunited at last, they celebrated. then, on the drive home -- >> there was a car there, stranded. >> vince tells his wife that he's going to go check on him. >> i heard two three popping sounds. >> he was laying there with atppeared to be several gunshot wounds to the head. >> her husband and father of five, dead. >> i want my mommy. and i want my kids. >> no one could understand it. >> the type of person that he was, i don't think he ever had an enemy. >> or did he? >> he said, we are now in debt to bad people. >> we knew that there was another person that needed to be looked at. >> a winding investigation leading deep into the dark. this sounds like a love triangle? >> i believe it was. >> it's horrific. >> brutal. >> i was like why. are you kidding me? >> hello and welcome to "dateline." growing up, vince goslyn didn't seem to destined for the military, but that's where he foun

he's in fort myers again tonight. rob, this storm is moving up the east coast, still very widespread impacts ahead. >> reporter: indeed, the the back side of this is actually bringing good weather for rescue and recovery efforts here, but the front side heading north, it's bad news all the way. 40 miles northwest of myrtle beach, south carolina, heading into north carolina. most of the action north of the ce we got the tornado watch up from the carolina border through virginia beach. and the northwest quadrant of this storm continues to be a very strong one. big cities like charlotte, like columbia, raleigh durham, roanoke, richmond, all getting heavy rain. more power outages will be happening as elwyn said. d.c., baltimore, and then on the coastline, atlantic city, wind gusts up and over 40, 50 miles an hour. early morning hours into new york city and up the i-95 corridor will release heavy rain here. 3 to 6 inches of rain along the i-95 corridor, down through philly and york. that's enough to flood urbanwise. it's n

kaylee lane rode out the storm on fort myers beach. she and her family now forced to say goodbye to their home. >> light into a suitcase. >> just a horrible situation down there in southwest florida. that was brooke shaffer reporting for us tonight. all right here locally, we're going to be taking a live look now across the bay area. this is from our mount tam cam. it's kind of hard to tell. >> we're actually looking at anything other than 5 bright word is fog and cloud in here with socked in with the fog right now. rodriguez joining us now to look at the forecast in just how long this fog going to be hanging around recent. yeah, definitely through sunday fog tobar certainly living up to its name for the first weekend. let's take a look, though, at radar for. >> because we are tracking remnants of what was once hurricane ian now tropical storm ian making its way throughout parts of the east coast, specifically over charleston and pittsburgh. widespread light showers right now and even some pockets of moderate rain so far. pittsburgh, y

boris sanchez is live in fort myers. in this press conference about to begin, what are we expected to hear? zbl >> reporter: well, we are expecting an update from the sheriff of lee county on the death toll and the question that they couldn't answer for us yesterday, how many people remain missing. obviously it is a delicate operation here in lee county, specifically in fort myers beach which the sheriff announced was closed off even to residents in part because this search and rescue efforts is slowly transitioning into a search and recovery effort. the sheriff revealed to us that his team is encountering some morbid scenes as they begin to move debris and comb through the wreckage. they are discovered cadaver and that is why you see the death toll climbing the way that it has. more than 100 fatalities here in the state of florida. the sheriff yesterday saying they simply don't know exactly how many people are still missing out there. here was his response, what he shared with cnn during yesterday's press briefing when

goes to fort myers beach. are at the beginning of fort myers beach, the bridge that goes into another area, that is the most effective area. what we knew is that authorities were blocking the entrance that we're allowing residents to go out, but in fact, they just informed that they now have a mandatory evacuation for all of the residents inside that area, fort myers beach, as of this afternoon. they have to evacuate because they are still continuing with a search and rescue operation, and members of fema told us that it is very difficult to identify people on the island who need help, and those that have decided to come back to try to find what is left inside their homes. that is why they decided to move everyone out of the island, as they still continue rescuing people. i ask for examples, what kind of people are used to rescuing? they said we found somebody on the third floor, an older person, who did not have a way to come down because the stairs were washed away. we had to rescue them. they found someone

>> we have guardian angels in fort myers to begin with and tampa, st.g in more from the east coast from fort pierce. we're doing wellness checks. as you know a lot of senior citizens still stuck in their homes and we're also checking on a lot of the animals. a lot of the animals have been stuck in hopes that humans had to abandon when the floods came through, we're distributing water which is so necessary, food, and just helping to try to repair that part of florida. we got to put aside political differences. this isn't time for democrats and republicans to come together , and help put florida back together again, and help all those in need. not based on equity vice president harris. based on need. >> cheryl: curtis sliwa, thank you for all your efforts in this city, fort myers thank you to your wife for her efforts when it comes to animal rescue. i'm one of her biggest fans please tell her hello. curtis thank you very much. >> thank you. >> cheryl: well the dow is hitting session highs right now, and we are going to be right back, dow up 720. i'll take

she moved to fort myers beach just a couple of years ago. she says she instantly fell in love with the town and started planning roots there. but now she's heartbroken that it was all taken away in less than 24 hours. >> it was like a magical place. it was just this hole community. people some pointed you love to you work hard. off with you. we'll bring you anything. do anything for you know what terry o'reilly reminiscing about fort myers beach, a place she called heaven and home. >> before hurricane ian ripped it all apart. we're grateful to be alive. yeah. i mean, when you look at the images are house. what we call. there's nothing. it's just wet. lumber. nothing remaining. i all of our staff strollers, the whole you name it. it's gone with no home to return to like thousands of others on fort myers beach. >> carrie and her daughter summer wind are now staying with kerry, sister kelly in san francisco. kelly was also in southwest florida when the hurricane hit making a surprise visit to fort myers beach for summer wins. first birthday, ju